OpenGlyph — Catalogue of the American Public DomainJurisdiction: United StatesRev. 2026.08
Images / art

Two archives, queried live.

Every record below comes from The Met or Smithsonian Open Access and was filtered on that archive’s own rights field before it reached this page. 24 shown for “Pearl and gold necklace with pendant of Eros” — 64 records examined, 25 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 01:16 UTC · fetched live for this request

Object
Public domainThe Met’s isPublicDomain field is true for this object.
CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian’s metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Not shownAnything failing its archive’s rights field is dropped server-side and never appears here.
Pearl and gold necklace with pendant of Eros

Pearl and gold necklace with pendant of Eros

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 330–300 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Necklace, by Carlo Giuliano, Italian, 1831 - 1895

Necklace

Carlo Giuliano, Italian, 1831 - 1895 · ca. 1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Flintlock Gun of Louis XIII (1601–1643), King of France, by Pierre Le Bourgeois

Flintlock Gun of Louis XIII (1601–1643), King of France

Pierre Le Bourgeois · ca. 1620

Public domainThe Met
Necklace

Necklace

Artist not stated in the record · 18th–19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pendant Brooch with Cameo of Enthroned Virgin and Child and Christ Pantokrator

Pendant Brooch with Cameo of Enthroned Virgin and Child and Christ Pantokrator

Artist not stated in the record · late 1000s–1100s (cameo); 1100s–1300s (mount)

Public domainThe Met
Necklace, by Carlo Giuliano, Italian, 1831 - 1895

Necklace

Carlo Giuliano, Italian, 1831 - 1895 · 1863–96

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bona Sforza (1493–1557), Queen of Poland, by Giovanni Jacopo Caraglio

Bona Sforza (1493–1557), Queen of Poland

Giovanni Jacopo Caraglio · cameo ca. 1530–40, frame 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Necklace worn by Jessie Greer, gifted to her by George J. Jones, by Unidentified

Necklace worn by Jessie Greer, gifted to her by George J. Jones

Unidentified · ca. 1919

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pendant with a Triton Riding a Unicorn-like Sea Creature, by Reinhold Vasters

Pendant with a Triton Riding a Unicorn-like Sea Creature

Reinhold Vasters · ca. 1870–95

Public domainThe Met
Necklace, by Carlo Giuliano, Italian, 1831 - 1895

Necklace

Carlo Giuliano, Italian, 1831 - 1895 · ca. 1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Table clock with calendar, by Lucien Falize

Table clock with calendar

Lucien Falize · 1881

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Parure with Rubies and Pearls

Design for a Parure with Rubies and Pearls

Artist not stated in the record · Possibly 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pendant

Pendant

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Necklace and pendant

Necklace and pendant

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1870

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pendant reliquary with depiction of the Annunciation

Pendant reliquary with depiction of the Annunciation

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Necklace/Bracelet, by Florence Koehler, born Jackson, MI 1861-died Rome, Italy 1944

Necklace/Bracelet

Florence Koehler, born Jackson, MI 1861-died Rome, Italy 1944 · ca. 1905-1935

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Prudence, by Etienne Delaune

Prudence

Etienne Delaune · ca. 1550–60, back: 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Pendant

Pendant

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1870

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Necklace with Satyr's-head pendants, by Carlo Giuliano

Necklace with Satyr's-head pendants

Carlo Giuliano · ca. 1870

Public domainThe Met
Necklace

Necklace

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pendant with Charity and Her Children

Pendant with Charity and Her Children

Artist not stated in the record · late 16th–early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
necklace

necklace

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pendant with a Pelican in Her Piety

Pendant with a Pelican in Her Piety

Artist not stated in the record · first quarter 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Drawing

Drawing

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
What was queried

Where these records came from.

Two archives are wired, and only two. Each one is filtered on its own rights field — never on a title match, and never on the presence of an image file.

  • The Met Collection API (Open Access)Rights field: isPublicDomain. 357 matched · 24 examined · 3 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.12 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 3131895 matched · 40 examined · 22 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.12 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 01:16 UTC, during this request. A completed pass is kept for 24 hours and replayed for an identical search, which is what keeps repeated queries inside Smithsonian’s 30-requests-per-hour allowance. A pass in which either archive failed to answer is never kept — an outage must not be replayed as though it were a finding about the catalogue.

Wikimedia Commons and the Library of Congress are deliberately not wired. Wikimedia was confirmed, on a live query, to return CC-BY material inside the same result set as genuine public domain works, and filtering it safely has not been designed yet. loc.gov was blocked by bot detection during the source evaluation, so its rights vocabulary has never been observed — and nothing here is built on a field nobody has read.

An image file is a rights claim. It never travels without its field.